Inferpedia - an encyclopedia of the missing

Public research preview — Inferpedia is a working encyclopedia of what's missing, opened while the scaffolding is still up. Published articles carry their sources and scores; everything less finished is labelled as exactly what it is.

Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna

This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Jefferson's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.

Thomas Jefferson and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

Thomas Jefferson is attested as having owned this work by John Locke.

Evidence ledger

Sowerby's catalogue documents that Jefferson's library included Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding.